{"title": "Drawing from a Distance", "start": "2026-11-16T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Drawing from a Distance is a free online drawing workshop held monthly on Mondays, where participants sketch together from home. The Noguchi Museum runs the program, which explores Isamu Noguchi's work through art-making and reflective discussion on art, space, and time. Participants practice introductory drawing techniques and create a long sketch of a fixed-perspective film of a museum gallery, with no previous drawing experience needed. Registrants receive a Zoom link and bring their own drawing tools and paper.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/drawing-from-a-distance-71889/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-16-1930-drawing-from-a-distance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cfcc455f8f8c8139a62320559bb373c9a62c09b35fa5f08177587b574a414623-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Hands-On: Drawing", "start": "2026-11-15T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "$16 general / Free for members", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Hands-On: Drawing is a bi-monthly sketching workshop held in the museum galleries, where participants draw from observation with inspiration from Isamu Noguchi's sculptures. Beginners are welcome, and all materials and drawing tools are provided. The program fee includes admission to the museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hands-on-drawing-56816/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-15-1500-hands-on-drawing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b93d514837ebde0a68d55b17db0d35fc4659079c937159efe3aac061a96ec4f4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Kit", "start": "2026-11-06T14:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Gallery Kit is a drop-in art-making session held in the museum's galleries. Visitors of all ages and experience levels explore Isamu Noguchi's work and current exhibitions, with each session starting from a motivating question that guides a creative exploration of materials and ideas. The event is hosted by The Noguchi Museum and admission is free all day for Free First Friday; no advance registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-kit-56813/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-06-1430-gallery-kit/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b6db5c02662028fc8948a82c1e9997a06064117189a2aa14a83cf1c9eeec60e7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Studio: Play with Paper", "start": "2026-11-15T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts/paper-crafts"], "description": "Open Studio: Play with Paper is a drop-in art-making workshop for families with children of all ages, held in the Education Studio on Level C. Families explore the museum's galleries and then work together on a related activity, this month looking at Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculptures and playing with paper to create their own experimental containers for light. The program takes place at The Noguchi Museum and is free with admission, with no advance registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-studio-play-with-paper-56815/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-15-1100-open-studio-play-with-paper/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f9bed104f8ef99679636e0892c8524fac47c70738ea06b9d182e70f8691ef534-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Aging: Drawing to See", "start": "2026-11-05T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bay Terrace", "address": "18-36 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11360", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Creative Aging: Drawing to See is a drawing workshop for seniors held at Bay Terrace, a branch of the Queens Public Library. It is run by the Queens Public Library and is based on an approach to art-making grounded in perception: if you can see something accurately, then you can draw it. The session lasts two hours and welcomes older adults.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/creative-aging-drawing-to-see-51290/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Life Drawing Session", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Drawing Center", "address": "Wooster Street 35, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing/figure-drawing"], "description": "Life Drawing Session is an evening of sketching the human figure in the galleries, open to all levels of experience and styles. Led by The Drawing Center's Isabella Kapur, the session offers a relaxing, social, and inclusive setting with both quick and extended poses. It is a 21+ event featuring a nude model, music, and a drink with each ticket, with alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages available. Participants should arrive on time and bring their own drawing supplies, which the bookstore also sells.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-drawing-session-124715/", "official_url": "https://drawingcenter.org/programs/lifedrawing18", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b655ed8ef8b828820b0386c9bf40ea349a32a952b4a8432135778bf8d8b9565c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tour Público Museum Tour in Spanish", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Tour Público is a public museum tour given in Spanish. It takes place monthly on select Fridays and Sundays at The Noguchi Museum. The conversational tour explores selected works from the Museum's collection while introducing the vision of the artist Isamu Noguchi. In keeping with Noguchi's interest in each visitor's personal experience, participants are encouraged to share their observations and interpretations throughout the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-publico-museum-tour-in-spanish-56812/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-06-1300-tour-publico-museum-tour-in-spanish/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f074dcefa5ccab30e602e0587b12bf5ec46442f751d3eb9591220e9b7e026a36-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art + You", "start": "2026-11-06T17:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Art + You is a gallery gathering at the Whitney Museum where younger adults share thoughts on artworks through close looking and conversation, taking place on Floor 8. Facilitated by museum educator and Brooklyn-based artist Jacqueline Cedar, it explores the exhibition 'The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans' through discussion and drawing. Participants consider how artists draw inspiration from memory, nature and the subconscious, then experiment with automatic drawing, color and shape to make their own works. The event is free with limited capacity, and advance registration is encouraged, though drop-ins with Free Friday Night admission are welcome space-pending.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-you-75752/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/art-and-you-nov2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea7d39528b8ff53f629674ae24794bb83b8fcc6fd508df2351b2fb6f0a213c7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drawing for Absolute Beginners: Botanicals", "start": "2026-11-14T13:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:30:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "$50 ($45 for members)", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "nature/plants"], "description": "A beginner art class called Drawing for Absolute Beginners: Botanicals, offered by Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Taught by instructor Nan Carey, it starts with observation as the first step in drawing, helping students understand the structure of a flower or plant. Participants learn to draw a floral specimen using a step-by-step method that incorporates perspective and detail. Students provide their own supplies, for which a materials list is given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/drawing-for-absolute-beginners-botanicals-79180/", "official_url": "https://www.bbg.org/classes/drawing_for_absolute_beginners_botanicals", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d787cd19e41a758d3353bddb2955343a751eeb51d2a7ab643ff963b46485b9b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Adult Studio Workshop", "start": "2026-11-18T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "$45 General; $40 Members", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": "45.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Adult Studio Workshop: Drawing in Three Dimensions is an in-person drawing workshop in the museum's exhibition galleries. Led by artist and educator Hollie Ecker, participants translate three-dimensional ceremonial objects from the exhibition Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague into two-dimensional drawings. Working while the museum is closed to the public, they practice observational drawing techniques, rendering architectural, organic, and geometric forms with attention to light, shadow, proportion, and perspective.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adult-studio-workshop-75703/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/111826-adult-studio-workshop-drawing-in-three-dimensions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7114949af01cba5f1983f628383d21b2f25a463f01622466df17071bc8065c6d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "中文公眾導覽 Museum Tour in Mandarin Chinese", "start": "2026-11-15T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "free with admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "中文公眾導覽 Museum Tour in Mandarin Chinese is a guided museum tour offered at The Noguchi Museum. It takes place monthly on select Sundays and lasts about one hour, exploring works in the museum's collection and exhibitions in a conversational way while introducing the life and vision of Isamu Noguchi. Free with admission, no advance registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/museum-tour-in-mandarin-chinese-56817/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-15-1500-%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e5%85%ac%e7%9c%be%e5%b0%8e%e8%a6%bd-museum-tour-in-mandarin-chinese/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5957be50dfb51809d5d771d875256f51e104a1e41af8da48fd22ec9fb755ce0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drop-in Sketching in the Galleries", "start": "2026-11-13T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free with museum admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A drop-in sketching session held in the museum's galleries, open to all with no drawing experience required. Participants sketch within the Frederic Church in Jamaica exhibition, which explores the painter's sketches of the Jamaican landscape from his 1865 journey to the island. Drawing prompts, seating, and materials are provided, and space is limited on a first come, first served basis. The session takes place in the Conservatory on the second floor of Cooper Hewitt, a fully wheelchair accessible space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/drop-in-sketching-in-the-galleries-52201/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/drop-in-sketching-in-the-galleries-11-13-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15532423ffd1e901bb9c1d3f0014a5eb6942313a8e8d85be4e7a2ebc491e47c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anime Club: Learn to Draw with Procreate", "start": "2026-11-09T15:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center", "address": "East 186th Street 610, 10458", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Anime Club: Learn to Draw with Procreate is a drawing session for fans of Japanese animation. It is held at the Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center, a branch of the New York Public Library on East 186th Street in the Bronx, where participants learn to draw using the Procreate app.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/anime-club-learn-to-draw-with-procreate-106699/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mindfulness in the Galleries: Ikebana", "start": "2026-11-14T10:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "$36 general / $20 for members, Cool Culture, SNAP/EBT", "price_from": "36.00", "price_to": "36.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/flower-arranging/ikebana", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "Mindfulness in the Galleries: Ikebana is a workshop that explores ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement, as a practice of presence alongside the museum's artwork. It is led by mindful ikebana teacher Anjie Cho, who has studied ikebana since 2015 and holds the rank of Level 11 Kako Assistant Professor in the Ikenobo School of Ikebana. Participants begin with a guided meditation and conversation in the galleries, then explore form, shape, balance and emptiness and create simple ikebana arrangements with seasonal flowers and branches as a moving meditation. No previous experience is necessary, all materials are provided, and advance registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mindfulness-in-the-galleries-ikebana-56814/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-14-1000-mindfulness-in-the-galleries-ikebana/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39c8b9148ac7fa553cd9d0d159fd2cf95cee22d039ca89e996a208cec8af4230-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Studio Social", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "102 Franklin St, New York, NY 10013", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Studio Social is an evening gathering in a Tribeca art studio where people meet new faces in the city. It is an Anchor gathering, this time built around a shared artwork everyone can add to throughout the night. Art supplies are included, no experience is needed, and helpers make introductions so no one stands alone. You can come on your own or bring a friend and draw a little, talk a lot, or move between the two.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/studio-social-67348/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/077e3ce19aea3162f4725bf7edbed662baf56567fecc7003a8369d32b0b7d57d-2000.webp"}]}